#wolf playlist

1) After Many Miles - The Ghost of Paul Revere

This song as a whole is just a great vibe for Wolf. Heavy. Loud. Sorta aggressive but also intensely sentimental. I imagine it as someone singing about her. I also love these lyrics in particular because y'know:

Oh lover I'll see you there waiting in the willows with your autumn hair. Oh lover I'll see you there after many miles.

2) Magpie - The Mountain Goats

Have you ever run across a song after creating a character and you're like, "Shit, sure hope I didn't hear this a month ago and then just turn it into a character?" That's this song. Y'know what? Maybe I WILL just copy and paste the whole song here:

Feed the kittens in the kitchen Set food out for the strays Try hard to do your best The magpie will have his way Fill your mouth with berries By the full light of the moon Work all night if you have to The magpie comes at noon Shore up the crucifixes Above the archways and the doors The magpie will come at midday And you will go down on all fours And when the cherries white with blossoms Be ready and be brave And remember what we had here When there was something left to save

3) Bitter Water - The Oh Hellos

This song is for Wolf's relationship to the Twelveswood and Gridania. It's a place she loves. It's her home. But that love and that feeling of belonging doesn't stop her from seeing the terrible things her nation does to people in the name of balance and in honor of the elementals. These lyrics in particular hit HARD:

I still taste you on my lips Lovely bitter water The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue And I know I shouldn't love you I know I shouldn't love you but I do

Even now you mark my steps Lovely bitter water All the days of our delights are poison in my veins I know I shouldn't love you I know

4) Avila - The Wailing Jennys

If Bitter Water is about her relationship to Gridania then Avila is about her response to it. Particularly these lyrics here:

I will not rest Until this place is full of sunlight Or at least until the darkness Is quiet for a while And we will not wait For the murdered to come calling The night will simply fall And the morning will rise

5) We Can Only Listen - Ruth Moody

Look, up there's all this political shit and feels about one's role in society and obligations to your fellow man and so I gotta have one song about a past (& future !?) love in here, right? You're damn right I do, also to fill my Ruth Moody quota. Anyway, Wolf, stop being an idiot and go get it.

Would it be easier beneath the sun Where apples fall and rivers run And I'd be lying there next to you In the silence it all comes through And then we wouldn't have to speak All you'd hear is my heart-beat We cannot choose the ones we love When our hearts they speak so loudly We can only listen We can only listen

Tagged by: @luck-and-larceny who should know what she was getting into by now. <3